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terests. Let us encourage them and their friendly efforts for our 

 good in every possible way by planting- trees for their convenience. 

 The tree and the bird! How astonishingly beautiful these organ- 

 ized objects of kind nature are in their life and their work! Each of 

 them are grand conceptions of Infinite wisdom, and are worthy of 

 our attention and careful study that would fill volumes of scientific 

 and useful teaching. The tree and the bird ! How intimately close 

 is the relationship that exists between the departments of the na- 

 tural world, between the vegetable and the animal kingdom, be- 

 tween the merest vegetable and the highly organized beauty of the 

 air! This relationship is easily traced, the one ministering to the 

 daily requirements of the other. Would we have birds to cheer and 

 to bless us, let us plant liberally the trees they love. 



FARM ECONOMY. 



Third — The economics of the farm require trees planted. I am 

 sure there is no farmer but will readily appreciate this statement 

 and will immediately pluck up his ears at the mention of it. By the 

 economics of the farm, however, I do not intend the discussion of 

 the most advantageous ways of feeding stock or the best breeds of 

 horses, cattle, sheep, etc., to keep for profit, but, rather, what are we 

 going to do with those waste lands on our farms that are too wet 

 and mucky to be used for the culture of grain, or that are too rough 

 to admit the plough? These are questions of much importance to 

 us, because every acre of our farms is liable for taxation, conse- 

 quently, we, of all men, can ill afford to allow any of it to lie idle. We 

 want it all to bring- in something, and something that is viseful to 

 us. We advise you to plant the low mucky places with the Ameri- 

 can larch or with black ash, or with elm or willow; and, besides 

 turning a dismal swamp into a field of beauty, it will soon be a 

 source of great profit to its owner. The useless land of this country 

 should be planted as earlj^ as possible, though in ever so rough a 

 way, with young seedlings of oak, maple, or even a small quantity' 

 of the Cottonwood, box elder, elm, white walnut or butternut. It 

 would soon astonish the most incredulous to see the quantit3^ and 

 suddenness of the growth and profits arising from these discarded 

 eyesores of the farm. Allow no stagnant miasma holes or useless 

 eyesores on j^our place to destroy the symmetr}^ and beauty of your 

 lovely farms. Plant them with trees, so shall they be to you objects 

 of pride and satisfaction and blessings to your country. 



HEALTH. 

 Fourth— The healthfulness of the farm. At first sight you may 

 perhaps think that now j^ou have me. We say in all candor plant 

 them on the farm and town lot for healthfulness. It is well known 

 that trees in their growing action absorb large quantities of 

 gases from the earth and from the air. These gases for the most 

 part are effete animal exhalations that have served a purpose, but 

 are now given off from our bodies as useless, and worse than use- 

 less to us. These gases are the very life of the trees, and are ab- 

 sorbed by them in large quantities. Again, the trees give off gases 

 that are useless to them, and these gases are the very food of our 



